Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5487

Title: Marshal Mailmarshal Smtp Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-5487.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Nov 10, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.88%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5487: Directory traversal vulnerability in Marshal MailMarshal SMTP 5.x, 6.x, and 2006, and MailMarshal for Exchange 5.x, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via ".." sequences in filenames in an ARJ compressed archive.

Impacted Vendors

marshal 1

mailmarshal 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/22806 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1857 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017209 http://www.marshal.com/kb/article.aspx?id=11450 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451143/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20999 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4457 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-039.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30188 http://secunia.com/advisories/22806 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1857 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017209 http://www.marshal.com/kb/article.aspx?id=11450 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451143/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20999 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4457 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-039.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30188

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-5487 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 10, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.